Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NC · GEOID 37067602024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 23.3 min one way; 16.7% worked from home, 78.8% drove alone, and 1.2% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip23.3 min±4.5 min MOE
Worked from home16.7%±5.9 pp MOE
Drove alone78.8%±3.5 pp MOE
60+ minute trip1.2%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Boiling Spring Lakes city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -4.9 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +8.0 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Boiling Spring Lakes city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 78.8%; 0.0% used public transit and 16.7% worked from home.
Each share uses 2,983 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Boiling Spring Lakes city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 40th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 60% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 70% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 96% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Boiling Spring Lakes city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 2,983 workers age 16+, including 2,486 workers with reported travel time and 497 home workers.
Population estimate6,347± 25 MOE
Workers age 16+2,983± 354 MOE
Workers with travel time2,486± 303 MOE
Estimated home workers497± 187 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All North Carolina reports →Comparable North Carolina commute records for Boiling Spring Lakes city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.